Parietaria hespera |
Parietaria hespera var. hespera |
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California pellitory, pelitory, rillita pellitory, unknown |
pellitory, rillita pellitory |
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Habit | Herbs, annual, 0.2-5.5 dm. | Herbs, 0.3-5.5 dm. | ||||
Stems | simple or freely branched, sometimes densely matted, prostrate, decumbent, ascending, or erect. |
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Leaf | blades narrowly to very broadly ovate, oblong, orbiculate, or reniform, 0.2-4.5 × 0.2-2.7 cm, base broadly cuneate, rounded, truncate, or nearly cordate, apex acuminate, acute, obtuse, or rounded; proximal pair of lateral veins arising at junction of blade and petiole. |
blades narrowly to broadly ovate, less frequently oblong or nearly orbiculate, 0.4-4.5 × 0.4-2.7 cm, conspicuously longer than wide, base broadly cuneate, rounded, or truncate, apex distally rounded or acuminate to acute or obtuse. |
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Flowers | involucral bracts 1-4.5 mm; tepals 2-2.8 mm, shorter or longer than bracts. |
involucral bracts 1-4.5 mm; tepals erect, loosely connivent at maturity, ca.2-2.8 mm, apex acute. |
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Achenes | light brown, symmetric, 0.9-1.2 × 0.6-0.7 mm, apex obtuse, mucro apical; stipe centered, short-cylindric, basally dilated. |
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Parietaria hespera |
Parietaria hespera var. hespera |
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Phenology | Flowering late winter–early summer, rarely at other times. | |||||
Habitat | Chaparral, deserts, roadsides, sand dunes, often in shaded and moist places | |||||
Elevation | 0-1400 m (0-4600 ft) | |||||
Distribution |
AZ; CA; NM; NV; UT; Mexico
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AZ; CA; NM; NV; UT; nw Mexico |
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Discussion | Varieties 2 (2 in the flora). (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Key |
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Source | FNA vol. 3. | FNA vol. 3. | ||||
Parent taxa | Urticaceae > Parietaria | Urticaceae > Parietaria > Parietaria hespera | ||||
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Name authority | B. D. Hinton: Sida 3: 293. (1969) | B. D. Hinton | ||||
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